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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo let me see if I have this some what correct...
Please fill in the facts here, but this is how I see the time line of all of this.
1. Syria asks Russia for help in their civil war. Why does Russia help? Well lots of reasons. Russia has assets in Syria they would like to protect. It gives them a home base in the Middle East. They can make a ton of money selling weapons. AND they can cause chaos. Syria's return? Well they have a country actually backing Assad and giving him money.
2. Russia bombs the shit out of Syria, and especially in areas where there are a lot of people that want to flee.
3. People start fleeing and trying to find refuge from the atrocities in their own country and home. They don't really want to do this, but they also don't want to die. So they go anywhere and everywhere they can.
4. Meanwhile in the United States, xenophobia is at an all time high. And here comes Trump.
5. Trump from what we can best guess owes Russia a shit ton of money. Russia hates the US because of sanctions imposed on them by President Obama and Congress for their transgressions against Ukraine and other nations. Also, the cold war. Fall of the soviet union. All that jazz.
6. Russia sees an opportunity for a puppet who is scared of his own shadow and everyone hating him. Of course Trump is scared of Russia, so he plays along. So he campaigns on fear and hate of all of the refugees coming out of Syria because OMG they are Muslims and brown.
7. Dumb shit Americans who think everyone is out to get them because holy shit we had a black man as president for 8 years listen to Trump talk about walls and immigrants and how he is some sort of fucking savior. The dumb shits who were dumbed down be the Southern Strategy Republicans eat that shit up.
8. People vote against their own interests for Trump because he is such a Godly person and look at all that fake media about Hillary and Benghazi and emails. Fear does a lot to motivate people. And it does a lot to keep others at a meh level.
9. Result? A lot of crazy people who believe Obama was a Muslim and that Hillary was a murderer voted for their savior Trump. In the meantime, everyone else got sick of the shit, and just said meh.
10. End game? Trump is elected.
11. Trump starts signing executive orders like he is the new Dear Leader, riling up his base by calling all immigrants bad and all Christians good. Especially those damn Muslim Syrian refugees. Can't have them here. No longer allowed.
12. Let's look over at Europe for a second shall we...
13. Brexit just happened. In large part to xenophobia of all the Syrian refugees trying to find safe haven.
14. The rise of populist candidates is happening in France, Germany and pretty much everywhere. Why? Because of all those damn Muslim Syrian refugees trying to find refuge from all the bombing Russia keeps doing in their country.
15. Who is loaning out money to all of these right wing populist douche bags? Russia? Why yes, Russia.
16. Guess who actually thinks Russia ain't that bad? Oh that's right, all of the right wing populist douche bags.
17. Trump considering relieving sanctions on Russia this weekend, because, they ain't that bad.
Thoughts? Am I wrong? Is Russia trying to take over the world? Just connecting the dots...
Phoenix61
(17,006 posts)I'm going to have to think about that for a bit.
blur256
(979 posts)that now that US isn't accepting the refugees. That's even more that will try to go into Europe. More chaos, more fear. More people leaning toward populism.